Case Study: Long Wharf Theatre achieves faster month-end closes and streamlined accounting with the AccuFund Accounting Suite

Long Wharf Theatre - Customer Case Study

Long Wharf Theatre, a nationally recognized performing arts organization in New Haven with a $6.5M budget and over 100,000 annual attendees, faced mounting problems with a 28‑year‑old DOS accounting system (TOM). The legacy system required full month‑end closes, produced cumbersome reports, made reconciliations tedious, and lost vendor support, prompting the theater to search for a modern, nonprofit‑focused solution.

The theater selected the AccuFund Accounting Suite, implemented by reseller Binnacle in October 2006, using modules for AP, AR, Cash Receipts, Fixed Assets, Purchasing and General Ledger plus seven query licenses for department managers. Implementation was quick and easy to learn; month‑end and year‑end processes now take roughly half the time, check runs are faster, financial snapshots are readily available, and managers can self‑serve budget reports—freeing the business manager from routine information requests.

Long Wharf Theatre

Jerry Pecoraro

Business Manager